Vocab # 1

2. The ability to influence others or impose one's will on them.
3. The struggle in any group for power that will give one or more people to make decisions for the larger group at large
4. Refers to a material standard of living shared by individuals within a community, society, or country.
5. Organizations or activities that are self-perpetuating and valuef for their own sake
10. Apparent association, between certain factors or variables.
12. Favor a wider use of cases unbound by area specialization, greater use of statistical analysis, and mathematical models often drawn from economics
13. theory To study the rules and games by which politics is played and how human beings act on their own preferences.
15. Politics The comparison and study of domestic politics across countries
17. reasoning The means by which we go from studying a case to generating a hypothesis.
18. choice Human beings base their behavior on rational calculations.

1. theory A theory that states that as societies developed they would become capitalist democracies, converging around a set of shared values and characteristics.
6. bias When a comparativist selects cases while being bias
7. reasoning Starting with a puzzle and from there generating some hypothesis about cause and effect to test against a number of cases.
8. method A way to compare cases and draw conclusions.
9. An individual's ability to act independently without fear of restriction or punishment by the state or other individuals, or groups in society.
11. Problem of distinguishing cause and effect.
14. revolution Hopes to generate theories and generalizations that could help explain and even predict political activity.
16. Mastery of few cases through the detailed study of their history, language, and culture.